Comments on: Avolites Pearl & Pearl Tiger Operator Tools and Time Savers

By: Rob Sayer

Rob Sayer — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:38:57 +0000

Hey Tim

Unfortunately, one of the things that the “old” Pearl didn’t do very well was stuff like this. You can repatch the DMX to another handle (fader), which essentially moves it BUT it also loses all programmed information for that fixture – effectively starting again. If you have a lot of other non-LED related programming then you can at least salvage this. Otherwise, depending on how critical it is to you, you could just make up groups (even of one fixture, with a memorable number) and use the keypad to select for programming, not much help for running the show from faders though.

I found that I spent a lot of patch time making a mess of it (often by patching onto handles on the wrong page/overwriting them etc) and the quickest thing to do at the patch stage was wipe and start again. Moving, altering and even deleting bits of the patch was always hard work.

By: tim

tim — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:12:44 +0000

hey rob question i got some scattered leds thru some of my pages on my pearl 2010 and i would like to put them on the same page how do i do this with out repatching them ? thanks so much

By: s

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:39:58 +0000

how i can take operation manual?

By: vagner

vagner — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:15:39 +0000

gostei muito do post atualmente trabalho com uma pearl tiger e tenho muito pouco tempo de estrada só um ano e tenho gostado muito desta mesa de luz mais gostaria de algumas dicas de gravar as senas de um show pois naum estou tendo muito tempo de escutar as musicas antes do show e estou gravando todos na escura sem conhecer a banda dai o resultado naum fica como gostaria walew

By: Axel

Axel — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:44:14 +0000

Thanks Rob!

Best regards
/Axel

By: Rob Sayer

Rob Sayer — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 07:40:54 +0000

Hi Axel

If you don’t have a Rainbow in your Effects options, the first thing to do is to check you have an up to date SG.DAT file and that it is correctly loaded. This file resides on any of the Personality Disks (grab one from the Avo downloads site) and can be updated via the System screens. As far as I am aware you can edit the file that sets the parameters of shapes in a text editor, if you want to do that the best place for information would be the Avo forums. With the Pearl Tiger, you can’t currently create or edit the base properties of an effect using the programming UI.

By: Axel

Axel — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:14:38 +0000

Thank you for a good tutorial!

Since i’m not a real “lampie” – yet, but still working on it =) .

I have a question. I have a pearl tiger at my disposal and a few cheap Eurolite LedBars. I’d like to create a “rainbow-like” effect using all the bars. But a shape like that doesn’t exist in the table. Is it possible to create a shape, and name all the parameters that need to be set? If it can’t be done in the table, is it possible to edit a text-file manually?

Sorry for a long post. Have googled, no luck :/

If ever in Sweden, I have a few beers for you =) .

Best regards
/Axel

By: tek

tek — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:33:56 +0000

Im just getting into lighting and was wondering where I can find the link for the simulator?

By: Rob Sayer

Rob Sayer — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:13:09 +0000

@Mark. Simplicity with underlying flexibility is what I think makes the Pearl so strong. There seems to be a finite set of tools with infinite ways to use them.

By: Mark W-E

Mark W-E — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:39:05 +0000

what a great article i have being using Avo’s for nearly 15 years even owned a pearl 2k for a while stunning desks

best bit is i just learned a few things reading this and a few things i never even thought of doing that appear obvious now

wow isnt it great how opp’s use the same desk in different ways .